Sentence examples for began futile from inspiring English sources
And so began futile but strenuous efforts on behalf of the management of PolyGram, myself and Alain Lévy included, to try to save PolyGram from annihilation.
Why don't we have this stuff in England?" Then began a futile hunt for Edward's armor.
Her court commissioned the volume of hours, or illustrated daily devotions, around the time she separated from her spendthrift husband, Arnold of Egmond, and began a futile 30-year effort to unseat him.
In the early 1980's, many districts began to abandon futile efforts to integrate neighborhood schools and instead set up magnet schools in the hope of attracting a diverse group of applicants from the entire school district.
Thus began a long and futile search for gainful employment.
The new king began his reign with futile efforts to mediate between the contending factions of the Riksdag.
On Sunday, just as his effort seemed futile, Lomong began to recover and start an extended kick.
As we pass through midlife, many of us realize we can gradually let go of the pressures to 'anti-age.' These efforts begin to feel futile, even a bit foolish, and shift toward looking our best, rather than looking younger.
By 1907, however, resistance was clearly futile, and they began to accept the separation law as an accomplished fact.
Firing more words into the middle of all that began to strike me as futile and unnecessary.
But 11 years after the study began, researchers concluded it was futile to continue — the two groups had nearly identical rates of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular deaths.
